@erincandescent @gsuberland @neilhenning This was the thing I was eventually noticing about it ... the exposure shifted so far it looks like your ceiling lights are just little glowy night-lights.
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To realise exactly why the Cybertruck is terrible first you have to appreciate that car and motorbike design is one of the United States’ most refined and advanced aesthetic arts: it is a thing they have been doing for a century, every generation build...@liamvhogan I mean, Harley Earl looked at a P-38 and invented tail fins on cars. However he'd cut his teeth in the world of hot rods and customs, apropos your mention of the ZZ Top car. The cybertruck is just trying too hard to be low-poly, such things are not meant to graduate from the world of concept cars without having some of the rough edges filed off (so to speak).
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morning coffee musing: could you make a discrete computer (7400 chips, but the modern versions with fast slew rates and all that) that can run at triple digit MHz?@danderson From the TI data sheet for "SN74LVC1G02 Single 2-Input Positive NOR-Gate"
Suggests to me that running it at 5V and cooling it well could get you in the neighborhood of 2ns, meaning you could get a couple gate delays into a 10ns cycle time. Depends a lot on how much capacitance they are driving. Not sure I picked the fastest gate either.
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morning coffee musing: could you make a discrete computer (7400 chips, but the modern versions with fast slew rates and all that) that can run at triple digit MHz?@danderson The Cray-1 was built at similar scale of integration using ECL and ran at 80MHz. That suggests to me that it might be possible to do something like this, I think modern CMOS fabrication could give you something faster than that. You'd want to pay a lot of attention to pipelining and signal distribution of course.
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Re this too-true comic from @workchronicles:@sennoma @inthehands And for the organization.. well the top talent is going to vote with their feet.
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Re this too-true comic from @workchronicles:@sennoma @inthehands The human cost of layoffs is very much underestimated, I think. And there’s a cost to those who aren’t laid off as well.
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Re this too-true comic from @workchronicles:@inthehands I lucked into a couple research groups that were led by decent people. But the madness was all around. I finished my Ph.D. and ran for industry. I enjoy teaching but doing it as an adjunct faculty has had zero appeal.
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It has been [0] days since the problem was the C compiler doing optimization fuckery with memcpy https://furry.engineer/@nil/113020070271450212@mcc @nil From the point of view of a compiler guy … 99% of programs do use normal libc, and there is so much legacy code out there with stupid little memcpy routines somebody wrote that are now slow compared to what the compiler can generate inline or libc memcpy. I apologize for people who actually know what they are doing getting zapped but this is why we do it.